Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)

	Cedar Hill Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	U.S. Historic district
	Cemetery entrance at intersection of Fairfield and Maple Avenues in Hartford, CT
Location	453 Fairfield Ave., in Hartford, Wethersfield, and Newington, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°43′20″N 72°42′12″W / 41.72222°N 72.70333°W
Built	1865
Architect	multiple, including Weidenmann, Jacob
Architectural style	Gothic, Queen Anne, Modern Movement
NRHP reference No.	97000333
Added to NRHP	April 28, 1997

Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut is located at 453 Fairfield Avenue. It was designed by landscape architect Jacob Weidenmann (1829–1893) who also designed Hartford's Bushnell Park. Its first sections were completed in 1866 and the first burial took place on July 17, 1866. Cedar Hill was designed as an American rural cemetery in the tradition of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.^[3]

The cemetery straddles three towns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, in Hartford, Newington, and Wethersfield.^[1]^[4] It includes the Cedar Hill Cemetery Gateway and Chapel, also known as Northam Memorial Chapel and Gallup Memorial Gateway, which is separately listed on the NRHP.^[5]

Cedar Hill Cemetery encompasses 270 acres (110 ha) and includes several historic buildings, including the Northam Memorial Chapel (built 1882), which was designed by Hartford architect George Keller, and the Superintendent's Cottage (built in 1875), which continues to be occupied by Cedar Hill's Superintendent to this day.^[6]

The cemetery gates are open from 7:00 am to 8:00 pm, April - September, and from 7:00 am to 5:00 pm during all other months.^[7]

Notable monuments

Cedar Hill has many unique monuments. One of the most recognizable is the 18-foot (5.5 m) tall pink-granite pyramid, and life-sized angel statue, erected in memory of Mark Howard and his wife, Angelina Lee Howard. Mark Howard was president of the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford and Connecticut's first internal revenue collector.^[8]

John Pierpont Morgan's family monument was designed by architect George W. Keller. Made of either red Scottish or Nova Scotia granite, the monument was designed to portray Morgan's vision of the Ark of the Covenant.^[9]^[10]

The Porter-Valentine mausoleum features a stained-glass window created by Louis Comfort Tiffany.^{[citation needed]}

Notable burials

More than 30,000 people are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, including many notable people such as:^[11]

Robert Downing Ames (1889–1931), actor
Fern Andra (1893–1974), actress
John Moran Bailey (1904–1975), Connecticut politician
Henry Barnard (1811–1900), Connecticut educator
James Goodwin Batterson, Connecticut businessman
Charles E. Billings (1834–1920), engineer, inventor and businessman
Thomas Church Brownell, founder of Trinity College
John R. Buck, U.S. Congressman
Francis M. Bunce, U.S. Navy rear admiral
Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, Connecticut businessman
Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, Governor of Connecticut and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
Ernest Cady (1842–1908), 45th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
George Capewell, Connecticut businessman
Charles Chapman (1799–1869), U.S. Congressman
William Closson, artist
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909), suffragist, activist, writer
Elizabeth Jarvis Colt, Connecticut business woman
Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt revolver
Helen Curry (1896–1931), stage actress
Katharine Seymour Day (1870–1964)^[12]
Charles Bancroft Dillingham, Broadway producer
James Dixon (1814–1873), U.S. Congressman and Senator
Virginia Dox, frontier educator and popular lecturer
Johnny Duke or Giulio Gallucci (1924–2006), professional boxer and coach
Edward Miner Gallaudet, teacher
Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, teacher
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, educator of the deaf
William James Glackens (1870–1938), artist
Annie Warburton Goodrich, nurse, first dean of Yale University School of Nursing
Charles Keeney Hamilton, aviator
Joseph Roswell Hawley, Governor of Connecticut
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003), actress^[13]
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1878–1951), women's rights legal activist
Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907), women's rights legal activist
Richard D. Hubbard (1818–1884), U.S. Congressman and 48th Governor of Connecticut
Richard Jarvis (1829–1903), president of Colt Firearms
Marshall Jewell (1825–1883), Connecticut businessman.
Mary Goodrich Jenson, aircraft pilot
John James McCook (1843–1927), professor and theologian
Anne Morgan (1873–1952), philanthropist
Edwin Denison Morgan (1811–1883), United States Senator^[14]
Junius Spencer Morgan, financier
John Pierpont Morgan Sr., financier
Jane Norton Grew Morgan (1868–1925), socialite and wife of J.P. Morgan, Jr.
Benjamin Wistar Morris (1870–1944), architect
Frederick E. Olmsted (1872–1925), forester
Peter Davis Oakley (1861–1920), U.S. Representative
Francis Ashbury Pratt, inventor
Henry Roberts (1853–1929), Governor of Connecticut from 1905 to 1907
Thomas Henry Seymour, Governor of Connecticut
Nathaniel Shipman (1828–1906), U.S. Circuit Judge
Virginia Thrall Smith, children's rights legal advocate
Griffin Alexander Stedman, United States Civil War general of the Battle of Fort Stedman. The General Stedman monument was sculpted by John M. Moffit.^[15]
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), poet
Julius L. Strong (1828–1872), U.S. Congressman
Allen Butler Talcott, artist
Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy
Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell, theologian^[16]
Robert Ogden Tyler, Civil War general
Edward Sims Van Zile (1863–1931), author
Loren P. Waldo (1802–1881), U.S. Congressman
Charles Dudley Warner, writer
Jacob Weidenmann (1829–1893), Switzerland-born landscape architect
Gideon Welles (1802–1878), Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln
Horace Wells, discoverer of anesthesia
Amos Whitney, inventor
Yung Wing (1828–1912), first Chinese graduate of Yale University

Image gallery: Monuments

Angel sculpture, Mark Howard monument
Cynthia Talcott monument
Statue atop Oswin Welles monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads (1873)
Hunt family monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads
Statue atop Clark family monument, designed by Truman Howe Bartlett (1868) and sculpted by Ferdinand von Miller (1869)
Angel of the Resurrection atop Colt family monument, sculpted by Randolph Rogers (1864)^[17]
Statue atop Marshall Jewell monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads
Statue atop John B. Windsor monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads (circa 1887–1905)

Image gallery: Trees

Weeping European Beech, June 2011
Weeping European Beech, June 2011
Ginkgo, November 2014
Purple Japanese Threadleaf Maple, July 2011
Japanese Threadleaf Maple Trees, November 2013
Ed Richardson with Japanese Threadleaf Maple, June 2013 This tree was planted in honor of Mr. Richardson's work measuring and mapping the trees of Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Pink Weeping Cherry Tree, March 2012

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System – (#97000333)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ actual announcement, on weekly listings on the NRHP
^ "Cedar Hill's Distinguished Heritage". cedarhillcemetery.org. Cedar Hill Cemetery. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
^ "Connecticut – Hartford County – Historic Districts". National Register of Historic Places mirror site. Retrieved April 24, 2008.
^ "Northam Chapel". cedarhillcemetery.org. Cedar Hill Cemetery. March 2, 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
^ "Architecture". cedarhillcemetery.org. Cedar Hill Cemetery. January 24, 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
^ "Welcome to Cedar Hill Cemetery". cedarhillcemetery.org. Cedar Hill Cemetery. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
^ "A Guide to the Mark Howard Papers at the Connecticut Historical Society" (PDF). chs.org. Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library. Retrieved January 7, 2016.
^ Architectural Gems. Courant.com (2007-07-06). Retrieved on 2013-08-21.
^ "MORGAN'S RELATIVES BURIED AT CEDAR HILL: NOBLE MONUMENT BUILT BY HIM IN 1889 Father, Mother, Grandparents and Brother Gathered Here OFTEN VISITED THE FAMILY GRAVE WHILE ALIVE". The Hartford Courant. The Hartford Courant (1887-1922). ProQuest Historical Newspapers. April 2, 1913. Retrieved November 11, 2024.
^ "Notable Residents". Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut). Retrieved September 28, 2014. Cedar Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of numerous politicians, industrialists, writers, actors, artists and educators. Below is a listing of some of Cedar Hill's most notable residents.
^ "Katharine Seymour Day (1870–1964)". Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut). Retrieved September 28, 2014.
^ "Site Offline". April 9, 2024.
^ Edwin Denison Morgan, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed April 25, 2008.
^ "Connecticut's Civil War Monuments – Genl. Griffin A. Stedman". CHS.org. Connecticut Historical Society. Retrieved December 29, 2015.
^ "Rev. Joseph H. Twichell Of Hartford". The New York Times. December 15, 1895. Retrieved September 28, 2014. The Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, who completed thirty years of his pastorate at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Friday, Dec. 13, in a native of the town of Southington and was graduated from Yale in the class of '58. ...
^ Inscription at base of statue shows date as "MDCCCLXIV" (1864).

External links

Cedar Hill Cemetery and Foundation, official website
- Cedar Hill's Distinguished Heritage, official website subpage on history
David F. Ransom, NPHP Nomination, Cedar Hill Cemetery, 1996.
Mapquest link, showing the cemetery
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford Connecticut, 1863–1903, 1903, OL 2966925M
Cedar Hill Cemetery at Find a Grave

[nris-1] "National Register Information System – (#97000333)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[2] tual announcement, on weekly listings on the NRHP

[3] "Cedar Hill's Distinguished Heritage". cedarhillcemetery.org. Cedar Hill Cemetery. Retrieved April 6, 2022.

[4] "Connecticut – Hartford County – Historic Districts". National Register of Historic Places mirror site. Retrieved April 24, 2008.

[5] "Northam Chapel". cedarhillcemetery.org. Cedar Hill Cemetery. March 2, 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2022.

[6] "Architecture". cedarhillcemetery.org. Cedar Hill Cemetery. January 24, 2012. Retrieved April 6, 2022.

[7] "Welcome to Cedar Hill Cemetery". cedarhillcemetery.org. Cedar Hill Cemetery. Retrieved November 11, 2024.

[8] "A Guide to the Mark Howard Papers at the Connecticut Historical Society" (PDF). chs.org. Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library. Retrieved January 7, 2016.

[9] Architectural Gems. Courant.com (2007-07-06). Retrieved on 2013-08-21.

[10] "MORGAN'S RELATIVES BURIED AT CEDAR HILL: NOBLE MONUMENT BUILT BY HIM IN 1889 Father, Mother, Grandparents and Brother Gathered Here OFTEN VISITED THE FAMILY GRAVE WHILE ALIVE". The Hartford Courant. The Hartford Courant (1887-1922). ProQuest Historical Newspapers. April 2, 1913. Retrieved November 11, 2024.

[11] "Notable Residents". Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut). Retrieved September 28, 2014. Cedar Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of numerous politicians, industrialists, writers, actors, artists and educators. Below is a listing of some of Cedar Hill's most notable residents.

[12] "Katharine Seymour Day (1870–1964)". Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut). Retrieved September 28, 2014.

[13] "Site Offline". April 9, 2024.

[14] Edwin Denison Morgan, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed April 25, 2008.

[15] "Connecticut's Civil War Monuments – Genl. Griffin A. Stedman". CHS.org. Connecticut Historical Society. Retrieved December 29, 2015.

[16] "Rev. Joseph H. Twichell Of Hartford". The New York Times. December 15, 1895. Retrieved September 28, 2014. The Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, who completed thirty years of his pastorate at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Friday, Dec. 13, in a native of the town of Southington and was graduated from Yale in the class of '58. ...

[17] Inscription at base of statue shows date as "MDCCCLXIV" (1864).

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